On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 03:03:31PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > > There is a minimum installation of bitmap fonts that the server > requires, or at least there was. IIRC, they weren't distributed by any > of the font packages. Look at the wiki page referenced in the book > currently. Alexander was the contributor of that information and he was > (and likely still is) the resident everything i18n expert. > At one time, the server had an option, I think it was "--enable-builtin-fonts" or something like that. It's gone in xorg-7.5. Until I've built gtk2 I use fluxbox (and xcalc, xclock) - they certainly look as if they are using legacy fonts, but none are installed. So, I imagine that the server is providing them.
I think Alexander is still an expert on this, but I'm not convinced he is resident here any more. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
